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As English burns, Scrabble plays the fiddle adding 300 words like Bitcoin, botnet and emoji

2018-09-25T00:49:25Z - Kate Clark / TechCrunch

As English burns, Scrabble plays the fiddle adding 300 words like Bitcoin, botnet and emojiAttention, Scrabble enthusiasts!
A whopping 300 new words have been added to Merriam-Webster’s Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, including a few that are sure to satisfy millennials and aggravate everyone else: Bitcoin, emoji and botnet.
Merriam-Webster likes to keep up with the hip, younger crowd and often adds words that began as slang but infiltrated the average person’s vocabulary.
“OK is something Scrabble players have been waiting for, for a long time,” Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster editor-at-large, told The Associated Press.
Earlier this month, Merriam-Webster added 800 new words to their flagship English dictionary, including ‘TL;DR,’ ‘instgramming,’ ‘fintech,’ ‘biohacking,’ ‘rando’ and ‘bingeable.’